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After 20 years, and 3283 posts including as much as 1,577,106 phrases I’m wrapping up my time because the lead blogger on the AWS Information Weblog.
It has been a privilege to have the ability to “stay sooner or later” and to get to be taught and write about so a lot of our improvements over the past 20 years: message queuing, storage, on-demand computing, serverless, and quantum computing to call only a few and to go away many others out. It has additionally been a privilege to have the ability to meet and to listen to from so a lot of you which have faithfully learn and (hopefully) discovered from my content material through the years. I treasure these interactions and your sort phrases, and I maintain each in thoughts after I write.
Subsequent for Jeff
I started my profession as a builder. Through the years I’ve written tens of hundreds of traces of meeting code (6502, Z80, and 68000), Visible Primary, and PHP, together with a whole bunch of hundreds of traces of C. Nevertheless, through the years I’ve progressively spent much less time constructing and extra time speaking about constructing. As every new service and have whizzed previous my eyes I’d memory about days and many years previous, after I may really use these goodies to create one thing cool. I went from being a developer who may market, to a marketer who used to have the ability to develop. There’s completely nothing mistaken with that, however I prefer to construct. The medium may very well be code, 3D printing, LEGO bricks, electronics elements, and even cardboard –creating and innovating is what motivates and sustains me.
With that as my driving power, my objective for the subsequent step of my profession at AWS is to speculate extra time targeted on studying and utilizing fewer issues, constructing cool stuff, and creating contemporary, developer-focused content material as I achieve this. I’m nonetheless working to determine the shape that it will take, so keep tuned. I’m additionally going to proceed to make my weekly appearances at AWS OnAir (our Friday Twitch present), and I’ll proceed to talk at AWS group occasions across the globe.
Subsequent for the Weblog
As for the AWS Information Weblog, it has lengthy been backed by an superior crew, each seen and invisible. Right here we’re on the current AWS re:Invent celebration of the weblog’s twentieth anniversary (picture courtesy of Liz Fuentes with edits by Channy Yun so as to add those that had been in any other case occupied):
Throughout the celebration I informed the crew that I sit up for celebrating the 30 yr anniversary with them at re:Invent 2034.
Going ahead, the crew will proceed to develop and the objective stays the identical: to supply our clients with fastidiously chosen, high-quality details about the newest and most significant AWS launches. The weblog is in nice fingers and this crew will proceed to maintain you knowledgeable even because the AWS tempo of innovation continues to speed up.
Thanks Once more
As soon as once more I have to thank all of you for the very sort phrases and gestures through the years. As soon as in your life, if you happen to work arduous and get actually fortunate, you get a singular alternative to do one thing that basically and actually issues to individuals. And I’ve been fortunate.
— Jeff;
